Yearly Archives: 2019

The number one rule of User Experience Design is to make the user’s path to their goal as intuitive, simple, and efficient as possible. To do this requires thoroughly understanding the users’ needs and frustrations, maximizing the options available to…

In user experience design, user journeys are essential for establishing a successful design direction. A user journey is more than a list of actions taken by users to reach a goal or complete a task. Using information gained through behavior…

Recent trends in healthcare UX design prioritize speed, privacy, innovation, personalization, and perhaps most importantly, an intuitive and safe mobile-first approach. The motivation behind many regulatory changes and updates in healthcare-related device development is the surge of healthcare-related mobile device…

A Natural User Interface (NUI) is an interface you interact with using intuitive actions related to natural, everyday human behavior. These interfaces often require touch, gestures or voice commands to interact with them. In the past, methods of interaction with…

Human factors usability testing applies what is known about human behavior to the design of User Interface design systems, including our abilities and limitations. There has been a limited application of advanced human factors knowledge to usability testing, although it…

The term “cognitive load” was originally coined by psychologists to describe the mental effort required to learn new information. In terms of User Experience design, cognitive load is the amount of mental effort required to operate a user interface system.…

The advancement of wearable technology has grown greatly in the past several years. These new and disruptive innovations provide advances that could potentially transform all aspects of life and society. With the technology paradigm shift comes questions and issues concerning…